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This is Piketty at his most optimistic and succinct, in what could be considered a conclusion to his magisterial trilogy on equality. While his previous books have explained why inequality persists, here he reminds us, in a bit of welcome news, that overall equality in the West has increased over the past 200 years.
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
A Public Books Best Book of the Year
“An opportunity for readers to see Piketty bring his larger argument about the origins of inequality and his program for fighting it into high relief.”
—Nicholas Lemann, New York Times
The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas develope...
A Public Books Best Book of the Year
“An opportunity for readers to see Piketty bring his larger argument about the origins of inequality and his program for fighting it into high relief.”
—Nicholas Lemann, New York Times
The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas develope...